HealthSpring's move to MetroCenter opens space for CHS

The space that Cigna-HealthSpring is leaving at the Carothers Building in Cool Springs for Nashville's MetroCenter office park won't stay vacant for long.

Hospital operator Community Health Systems has a letter-of-intent to take up the Cool Springs space.

"As our organization has grown recently, we have the need for additional office space," said Tomi Galin, a spokeswoman for Franklin-based CHS. "We already have space in the Carothers Building, so this is a natural expansion for us."

Galin said she didn't have specific details on how the new space would be used.

Graham Harrison, a spokeswoman for Cigna-HealthSpring, said the company's planned relocation of executive and other corporate functions to MetroCenter was based on a desire to be closer to its 1,200-employee Tennessee health plan operations at 500 and 530 Great Circle Road.

The Medicare Advantage operator is close to signing a lease to occupy the vacant Corners I office building at 601 Mainstream Drive. "We feel that being in one location will contribute to both business effectiveness and enhanced employee culture," Harrison said.

The State of Tennessee had been a tenant at the Corners I building. Cigna-HealthSpring's move won't affect Cigna's offices at the One Meridian building in Cool Springs.

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